Enforcing Safety at Baylor
Department of
Public Safety
reorganizes,
enhances BU
police force
KALYN STORY
Staff Writer
An external review of the
Baylor Police Department by
Margolis Healy & Associates
resulted in the reorganization
and enhancement of the Baylor
University Police Department,
including the hiring of a new
police chief.
Baylor’s
vice
president
for facilities and operations,
Brian Nicholson, sent an email
to students, faculty and staff
Wednesday
afternoon
with
information about improvements
Baylor’s
Department
of
Public Safety has made since
commissioning the review.
“One of our critical goals is
to ensure the campus community
is up to date with [Baylor
University Department of Public
Safety’s] latest accomplishments
and current projects, which
demonstrates our commitment to
protecting the students, faculty
and staff at Baylor University,”
said Mark Childers, associate vice
president for public safety and
security.
Some of the improvements
mentioned in the email include
adding 11 commissioned officers
and two dispatchers to its
professional staff of 38 officers
and 10 dispatchers, making the
department the third-largest law
enforcement agency in McLennan
County.
Since 2014, Baylor has
also hired a full-time Clery
Act compliance manager and
Clery Act associate to assist
with compiling the university’s
Annual Fire Safety and Security
Report, which is available online.
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure
of Campus Security Policy and
Crime Statistics Act, passed in
1990, requires all colleges and
universities that receive federal
funding to share information
about crime on campus and
efforts to improve campus safety,
according to the Clery Act’s
website.
The email also lists solidifying
their partnership with the
Waco Police Department by

DOCUMENTING CRIME This heat map shows crime frequency and crime “hot spots” based off geographical area on and around the Baylor campus. The
information is according to the Campus Crime and Fire Log. The red area on the map is near Penland Residence Hall, which was the site of Tulsa, Okla.,
sophomore Tyler Traino’s bike theft, as well as other reports.

TAYLOR WOLF
Contributor
Since Jan. 1, the Baylor Police
Department has received more than
314 crime reports, according to the
university’s Campus Crime and Fire
Log.

The log on the Baylor Department
of Public Safety’s website details
crimes or alleged crimes and fire
incidents occurring within the police
department’s jurisdiction. This is in
compliance with the Clery Act, which
regulates campus crime policy.
Based on analysis and mapping
of the Campus Crime and Fire
Log, the Lariat has found the five
most common crimes reported this
semester were as follows:

the report’s status had changed or
was referred to another department
or agency.
A heat map generated from the
log’s data shows various “crime
hot spots” reported to the Baylor
University
Police
Department.
The location with the most alleged
criminal activity is along Dutton
Avenue and S. Fifth Street. Baylor

CRIME >> Page 6

Baylor tuition increase rate locked in
at 4 percent for school years to come
GAVIN PUGH
Editor-in-Chief
Baylor’s tuition rate will stay
a set percent increase of 4 percent
beginning in the 2018-19 academic
year, which completes the tuition stepdown plan originally implemented in
2013, said Lori Fogleman, Assistant
Vice President for Media Relations

and Crisis Communications.
The plan, originally proposed by
student leadership and implemented
by the Board of Regents, has seen a
2.25 percent decrease in tuition hikes
over the past four years, Fogleman
said.
The tuition hikes were at a steady
6.5 percent increase before the plan
was implemented. For the 2017-18
academic year, students taking at

least 12 hours will pay $19,805 for
the fall and spring semesters.
As it stands, student enrollment
has increased by 8.6 percent since
fall 2013. With that growth in mind,
Port Barre, La., senior and Student
Body President Lindsey Bacque said
she hopes Baylor can provide all
students with what they need.
“As the student body grows, we
need more resources and amenities

to provide them with,” Bacque said.
Bacque noted it can be difficult to
meet these students’ needs due to the
financial strains put on the university
by the growing student body.
As the student body grows, Baylor
needs more resources, and because
Baylor needs more resources, it
needs more money to purchase these

TUITION >> Page 4

Downtown Waco to improve sidewalks
KALYN STORY
Staff Writer
With tourist attractions like Magnolia
Market at the Silos bringing in 25,000
to 35,000 visitors each week, as the
city of Waco reported in 2016, Waco’s
downtown area is seeing a lot more
traffic than it’s used to.
One area seeing the wear and tear
downtown is sidewalks. The Waco
Tribune-Herald reported that the city of
Waco does not regularly maintain or fix
sidewalks with the understanding that
property owners have the responsibility
to maintain the sidewalks next to their
property.
The downtown Public Improvement
District board has noticed these
downtown maintenance needs that
are not being met and has proposed an
agreement in which the city of Waco
would bring the sidewalks, lights and
trees up to date. After that, the Public

Improvement District would takeover the
maintenance.
“The committee’s main priorities
for direct action in 2017 are security
and maintenance of downtown,”
the public improvement service and
assessment plan for 2017 states. “It also
prioritizes the [Public Improvement
District’s] advocacy of East-West River
Improvements and connection behind
the Hilton; sidewalks, lighting and
maintenance; and the conversion of
Franklin and Washington to two-way
traffic.”
In that plan, the budget directs
$126,04 for landscape and maintenance
to maintain sideways, paved alleys,
planters and debris removal.
In a press conference last month,
Waco mayor Kyle Deaver discussed the
city’s economic growth and how Fixer
Upper has impacted the city.

Of the many tools Baylor provides its
students, PawPrints is one of the technologies
we depend on most.
Those who don’t have personal printers or
need to print while on campus are able to use
Wi-Fi to print to any public printers on campus.
This helpful tool is meant to be accessible for
all students but currently gives preference to
specific majors.
The policies listed on the PawPrints webpage
list the allowances for students. Undergraduate
students receive 400 pages per semester, while
graduate students receive 600 pages. The larger
amount for grad students is due to the need
to print in-depth papers and readings that are
required for their programs.
There are specific undergraduate majors who
are allotted more printing as well, specifically
business majors. They are charged an extra
fee of 25 dollars to have 21 dollars more in
PawPrints than the average student, as well as
access to certain computer labs. That option is
not available to other students.
Those who go over their printing amount
must pay for each page, dollar for dollar,
while business majors have a cheaper deal by
purchasing more printing dollars in bulk.
All majors should have the option to
purchase an extra amount of PawPrints for less
than the dollar amount, especially those with
heavy printing needs, such as education, history

Joshua Kim | Cartoonist

and science.
If there are not viable options for more fair
printing, the departments that determine their
students need more printing dollars should
portion more of their budget toward printing, or
more earth-friendly readings and assignments

via computer readable PDFs.
Aside from printing equality, PawPrints
could use a few updates. The online and installed
PawPrints do not show when a printer is out of
order or is severely backed up. You can often
find students lined up behind a printer, staring

blankly at each other as one person attempts to
unjam a printer they have no knowledge of how
to use.
If a virtual alert or block was put on the
printer until it becomes usable again, printing
would be less stressful.
Additionally, that could potentially allow for
technology supervisors to know when printers
have stopped working, instead of requiring
someone to call or alert them in person.
Another issue with the printing system is
that there is no way to recall a document that
is stuck in a long queue or is lost in cyberspace
until a printer gets back up and running.
Not only can the information being printed
have sensitive information on it, the money is
also gone after you press print, regardless of
whether the printer is working.
Many times, the machine will print the
paper once it begins to work again, and many
times students have already moved on to a
working machine or to their next class, only to
have their information sitting in a tray where
they originally tried to print.
PawPrints is not something that students
tend to take for granted, but the system could
use a little bit more attention and some updates
to have it be the useful tool it is meant to be.
Equality in printing prices, updated
interfaces and some printer TLC could go a long
way for the beloved PawPrints system.

COLUMN

Why (or why not) to watch Netflix’s ‘13 Reasons Why’
It’s meant to be heavy; that’s why we love it
MEGAN RULE
Staff Writer
About two or three weeks ago, “13
Reasons Why” took over the Netflix world.
Everywhere I went, at least two or three
nearby conversations that I picked up on were
about the show and how intense and addicting
it was. I read the book
when I was in middle
school and remembered
it being really good and
really impactful.
So I paused “Gilmore
Girls” and decided to
watch this show. It’s only
13 episodes, so why not?
In a nutshell, “13
Reasons Why” focuses
on Hannah Baker, a high
school student that commits suicide in the
first episode.
She left behind a series of tapes, each one
numbered as a reason why she did it. The tapes
were given to the people who were on the
tapes, and the show focuses on Clay Jensen,
one of the final reasons on a tape.
Each episode drew me in more and more
as I got more and more curious about what
juicy story each tape would contain. I found
myself getting frustrated with Clay, like much
of the world, for taking so long to get through
the tapes. I put everything in my life on pause
because I wanted to know what happened to
Hannah Baker.
For the final episode, I found myself
sitting in my room at 1 a.m. crying hysterically
because of how graphic, how heartbreaking
and how real this show was and the message
behind it.
Sure, it’s a trend. It’s cool to watch
“13 Reasons” right now and discuss our
impatience with Clay and our curiosity for
what happened at Jessica’s party. But as I sat
in my dark, empty room with my face stained
with tears, I got hit in the face with the reality
of this show. I saw me and my brothers and my
friends in several characters, and I connected
with the situations.
My stomach twisted into lots of tiny
knots as I realized how vulnerable I was in this

moment — because we are living in a world of
Hannah Bakers, but none of us care to admit
it because we’re so caught up in the gossip
behind the tapes, not the heart that got broken
in the making of the tapes.
According to Pacer, the National Bullying
Prevention Center, more than one out of every
five students report being bullied and 64
percent of children who were bullied did not
report it. Here’s what’s heartbreaking: More
than half of all bullying situations stop when a
peer intervenes and says something.
Imagine that, just stepping in and
saying something could stop over half of all
bullying situations, bullying situations that
make students 2.2 times more likely to think
about suicide and 2.6 times more likely to
attempt suicide than those that aren’t bullied,
according to Pacer.
All of us who have watched it, whether
we flew through the show in a day or two or
we’re still in the process of watching, should
pick up on the message and do something
about it.
Stop defining people by their body
parts, stop victimizing people because they’re
different than you, stop thinking you have
control over other people and stop using such
harsh words when there’s no need for them.
Plain and simple, stop being mean.
The show is heavy. It has lots of deeper
stories intertwined with Hannah Baker’s
reasons why she committed suicide. The show
is entirely relatable and the characters might
as well be real people who exist.
Let’s face it: People send pictures they
shouldn’t send. People demean others with
sexual slander, and people find awful ways
to ensure their dominance. But this show is
begging us to stop.
So as we tell our friends and co-workers
and teammates to watch it because it’s such
a good show and so addicting, let’s also tell
them to pay attention to all the smaller details
and listen to the cry for help that “13 Reasons
Why” is sending out.
It’s more than a trendy show — it’s quite
possibly the best way of sending a message to
the people that need to hear it most.
Megan Rule is a junior journalism major
from Stamford, Conn.

They don’t give any alternatives to suicide
PENELOPE SHIREY
Lariat Photographer
In the days following the release of “13
Reasons Why,” my social media channels
were inundated with opinions, reactions and
memes related to the show.
However, the discussions surrounding
the show were not all
positive, and the debates
that followed about the
difficult topics were
divisive.
While some people
argued that the show
taught them to ask for
help when they need it
and be kind to others,
others said that the show
stumbled with many
flaws that prevented it from achieving the
success it could have.
One definite result of the show is an
increase of public awareness about suicide.
Selena Gomez, an executive producer on the
show and owner of the most followed account
on Instagram, has used her platforms to speak
out about her own mental health struggles in
the past.
Gomez and two other cast members even
got semicolon tattoos, a symbol used by
Project Semicolon as part of their anti-suicide
campaign.
However, the awareness is remarkably
ineffective if it is not paired with equally
important messages on the alternatives to
suicide.
The show never mentions the idea
of mental health and depression, which
consequently excludes mentions of the
possibility of recovery.
Even though depression and other mental
health struggles manifest differently for every
person, it would have been worth mentioning
that suicide is often complicated and often
involves multiple factors.
The show instead relies on an
accompaniment released by Netflix called
“Beyond the Reasons” and a partner website to
provide resources rather than demonstrating
them in action throughout the episodes.

I think a direct listing of resources at the
end of each episode instead with numbers for
mental health hotlines and other web-based
resources would have been more effective.
An additional problem I saw in the show
is that the adults like the school counselors
and parents come across as out of touch and
uninvolved.
While this may have been intentional to
force the audience to build a connection with
the teen characters, some are concerned that it
may have been too effective.
Dan Reidenberg, the executive director for
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education, told
ABC News that they are worried about an
increase in suicides if students over-identify
with Hannah.
Many who may over-identify with Hannah
could be more vulnerable to the negative ideas
within the show.
For this reason, I applaud Netflix for the
trigger warnings that they put at the beginning
of the more graphic final episodes. However, I
never saw them when I watched the show.
One simple change that I would have liked
to see from the creators would be a narration
of the warning while it is shown on screen.
While the trigger warnings may not have
caused me to stop watching the show, but the
additional moment of pause that a trigger
warning demands is worth the extra effort.
While the producers said that they were
intentional about making the show painful to
watch, the depth of pain created in the scenes
that depict rape, suicide and other damaging
events is not matched by resources to combat
the problem.
Discussing the issues that are at the core
of the show without adding to the stigma that
already exists is difficult. Even more care must
be taken when depicting actual methods of
suicide.
This larger problem requires more
engagement than binge-watching and tweets,
and there are resources available to aid in this
task.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
is available 24 hours every day at 1-800-2738255.
Penelope Shirey is a senior journalism major
from Farmington, Conn.

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MEGAN RULE
Staff Writer
Travel time between the Houston metro
area and the North Texas metro area will be
significantly reduced due to a new form of
transportation, the Texas Bullet Train.
According to the Texas Bullet Train website,
project construction could begin as early as late
2018.
“Right now, Texas engineers, architects
and environmental experts are designing and
planning construction of the Texas Bullet
Train,” Holly Reed, managing director of
external affairs at Texas Central Partners, LLC,
wrote in an email to the Lariat. “The designs
and specifications these experts are developing
support the ongoing regulatory approval
process.”
Studies on the bullet train show that in
addition to significant time savings, the bullet
train will offer extensive ridership potential,
according to a Texas Central press release.
Nearly 12.8 million people live within an hour
of a proposed bullet train station, according
to the Texas Central website. The study of the
market size demonstrated a strong demand for
a high-speed train. Almost 25 percent of all trips
between North Texas and Houston are expected
to be on the bullet train by 2026, which is nearly
5 million passengers, according to the press
release.
“The ridership study by L.E.K. Consulting
was conducted to provide a window into the
massive and growing market for the 90-minute,
240-mile trip between North Texas and
Houston, with a midway stop in the Brazos
Valley,” Reed wrote in an email. “Previous
studies validated this strong demand, now we’re
focused on learning what riders want in their
bullet train and how this service can best meet
the market’s demands. Texans want to save time
when they travel, they want travel choice, and
they want to improve their travel experience –
and they’ve told us so.”
Traveling on the bullet train would be 70
minutes faster than traveling by car and 50
minutes faster than traveling by plane, according
to the press release. In the study, 2,000 residents
were surveyed, and over 80 percent said they

Photo Courtesy of Holly Reed

FAST AS A SPEEDING BULLET The new Texas Bullet Train will utilize the train technology of the Japanese Shinkansen N700-I train, according to
Holly Reed, managing director of external affairs at Texas Central Partners, LLC.

would consider using the bullet train. Over 67
percent who have made the trip in the last 12
months would “definitely” use a high speed train
on their next trip if it were an option, according
to the press release.
According to a recent NBC-Miami article,
there are 11 routes in the United States that
are considering this technology. These include
Florida, Texas, Colorado, Nevada and Missouri,
in addition to some of the country’s most
congested regions such as Los Angeles-San
Diego, Seattle-Portland and Reno-Las Vegas.
“It sounds like a cool plan. I’ll definitely
consider it because it will cut down time,” said
Scottsdale, Ariz., freshman Haley Everroad. “It
will also be good for the environment because it
will put down CO2 emissions if more and more
people use it.”
Reed said the bullet train will have a

dramatically positive impact on the Texas
economy. The bullet train is expected to
generate over $36 billion in economic impact
over the next 25 years, though the development
and construction of the rail line, maintenance
facilities, passenger stations and facilities. The
bullet train is expected to create 10,000 direct
jobs a year through construction and will
employ about 1,000 full time employees once
finished, Reed said. The bullet train will also
provide permanent tax base revenue, benefiting
the state and local economies in all ten counties
along the route.
“The bullet train technology coming to
Texas is proven to be the safest, most reliable
and comfortable high-speed train system in the
world,” Reed wrote in an email. “This system
has operated for over 50 years in Japan and
has never had a crash, a perfect track record of

All Baylor students are allotted
a certain amount of money toward
PawPrints, Baylor’s printing system.
However, the amount of money allocated
differs between majors.
According to the Baylor PawPrints
website, printing costs 7 cents per page
for black and white and 28 cents per page
for color. Every semester, undergraduate
students’ allowance for PawPrints are 400
single-sided pages, and graduate students
are given 600 pages. In total allocating $28
for most undergraduate students.
“We look at historical student printing
and see how much they have printed in
the past covering 95 percent of the student
body printing, and that is how we came up
with the $28 per student,” Andrew Telep,
manager of TechPoint Services at Baylor,
said.
Although each student is given
$28 per PawPrints allowance, business
majors, anyone taking a business class
and graduate students receive more funds.
Each department at Baylor has its own
printing budget that allows for a certain
amount of paper, toner and ink for the
printers in its buildings. Therefore, there is
not a certain PawPrints budget that can be
split among students, Telep said.

McKenzie Maynard |
Clarksville, Tenn., freshman

Several students wonder why business
majors are given more money for
PawPrints than those in other majors.
Telep said the reason behind this is because
there is a fee applied to anyone taking a

“I never use all of
it. I have about
$40 left over every
semester, and I
feel that the money
spent on PawPrints
per student can
be used on other
things.”

zero passenger fatalities or injuries due to train
accidents.”
In addition to the economic and userfriendly benefits the train brings, it will also be
environmentally friendly. Reed said along the
train’s projected route, four counties already
have air quality non-attainment status. Since
this project reduces congestion, the electricpowered trains will provide a cleaner alternative
that will help contribute to better air quality
over time, Reed said.
“It is exciting to bring this transformational
project to Texans, who are demanding a
safe, productive and reliable transportation
alternative between North Texas and Houston,”
Reed wrote in an email. “The bullet train will
do for transportation what broadband did for
communications: provide on-demand, very
high-speed transportation over long distances.”

Dayday Wynn | Lariat Photographer

INK ON A PAGE PawPrints, Baylor University’s on-campus printing system, allots
most undergraduate students $28 each semester to print materials around campus.
Each academic department at the university is given a printing budget that accounts
for paper, toner and ink use for the printers in its buildings.

business class, and every department has
a different allocation of its budget toward
printing.
“Anyone taking a business class pays a
technology fee and that is $25 which gives
them access to the technology commons
lab and an additional $21 on their
PawPrints which translates to 300 pages
one-sided and 600 pages double-sided,”
Telep said.
Graduate students and MBA students
also get added allowances to their
PawPrints.
“Graduate offices have a different type
of printing requirement because they are
working on their thesis and dissertation.
Therefore, they have a different need
which adds $14 to their allowance,” Telep
said.
Little Rock, Ark., senior Kira Deaton,
an international business major, said
Baylor provides $45 of PawPrints to her
every semester. Deaton said she is grateful
for the amount given to her, but she
doesn’t spend all of it in one semester.
“I never use all of it. I have about $40

left over every semester, and I feel that the
money spent on PawPrints per student
can be used on other things,” Deaton said.
Education students are allotted the
same amount as most students, $28 for
PawPrints. Clarksville, Tenn., freshman
McKenzie Maynard is studying secondary
education for social studies and said she
believes education majors should get
more money for PawPrints because of the
amount of printing they have to do.
“I have used most of my PawPrints
and I am down to $6 until the end of the
semester,” Maynard said.
According to the PawPrints website, if
students spend more than their allowance,
their PawPrints balance will appear
negative, and the balance will be charged
to their student account.
“As an education major, we have to
create lesson plans and print them along
with PowerPoints and worksheets. When
you start to teach, you have to provide
all of these things for the students and
the printing comes out of your money,”
Maynard said.

Senate bill to ensure equal marriage access
RYLEE SEAVERS
Staff Writer
Texas Senate Bill 522 has been sent
to the Texas House of Representatives
after being passed by the Texas Senate
on April 12. The bill ensured equal
access to marriage licenses for all
couples and allows county clerks to
delegate the issuance of a marriage
license to a deputy clerk, judge,
magistrate or certifying official if
they have notified the commissioners
court of a “sincerely held religious
belief ” in writing.
The bill was passed with
bipartisan support, according to a
press release, and was co-authored by
one Democratic and four Republican
Texas Senators.
The bill states that if there are not
enough authorized people in a county
willing to issue marriage licenses, the
commissioner’s court will designate
one or more county employees or
contract an outside person who does
not work for the county to issue
the licenses. A person, other than a
county clerk, who has the authority
to issue marriage licenses, complete
paperwork or administer oaths is
designated as a “certifying official.”
Under SB 522, an authorized
person who refuses to issue a
marriage license cannot be subject to
penalty unless they are objecting for
a prohibited reason, which includes
race, religion or national origin. SB
522 also amends the Family Code to
include the phrase “certifying official.”
“In recognizing the right of
same-sex couples to marry in light
of the Supreme Court decision in
Obergefell v. Hodges, Birdwell’s
legislation provides clerks and judges
specified, statutory authority under
the protections afforded by Article 1,
Section 4 of the Texas Constitution,
which guarantees that ‘no religious
test shall ever be required as a
qualification to any office’ and that
no one can ‘be excluded from holding

Liesje Powers | Photo Editor

LACE AND LOVE Texas Senate Bill 522 seeks to ensure access to marriage licenses by allowing county clerks to appoint another certifying official to issue
marriage licenses due to a written account of “sincerely held religious belief.” Some see this bill, which passed the Texas Senate last week, as providing
religious freedom, while others see it as a violation of separation of church and state.

office on account of [their] religious
sentiments,’” the press release states.
Carmen Saenz, director of
InterWaco-LGBTQ, said that for her,
this issue comes down to separation
of church and state. She believes there
is a problem whenever someone
brings their religious convictions into
a job that serves a public office.
“If you choose to work for the
county, then you are obligated to treat

everyone the same, period, and follow
the law,” Saenz said.
Saenz said she believes SB
522 promotes taxpayer funded
discrimination and does not ensure
equal treatment under the law. She
said when a person holds a job that
is funded by the people, they need to
represent all the people.
“I have a problem with a
government entity using their

religious conviction to take away the
rights of anybody,” Saenz said.
Longview
senior
Marivious
Allen, co-chair of Baylor College
Republicans and vice-chair of
the Texas Federation of College
Republicans, said he supports the bill
because he believes that it upholds
the constitution and ensures religious
freedom.
Allen said he does not believe

that SB 522 creates an issue with
separation of church and state, and
there needs to be a wall of separation
between church and state to ensure
that certain religious beliefs are not
imposed on others.
“We are citizens of the state
first, and church is just part of our
salvation,” Allen said.
No date has been set for public
hearing.

TUITION from Page 1
resources, which means it needs more
students to enroll, Bacque said.
Dr. Reagan Ramsower, senior vice
president and chief operating officer at
Baylor, is responsible for determining
and proposing the annual budget to the
Board of Regents.
These tuition funds are majorly
responsible for the university’s

ability to function, with two-thirds of
all revenue coming from tuition, or
roughly $600 million out of the $915
million in revenue as reported on
Baylor’s 2014 990 form.
Students have an option to mitigate
some of the effects of the tuition
increases beginning their freshman
year with the Guaranteed Tuition

Gavin Pugh | Editor-in-Chief

Option as outlined by the university’s
student financial services’ site.
“The 2017-18 Guaranteed Tuition
Option is designed with the intention
of providing a material discount to
undergraduate students who elect to
participate,” the financial services’ site
says. “The actual value of the benefit
will depend on how tuition rates are set
by the University over the next three
years, but an undergraduate’s savings
is projected to be $2,000-$3,000 over
the four-year enrollment period.”
These savings do not include fees,
however. For the 2016-17 academic
years, fees totaled to $4,180 per
student enrolled in 12 hours or more.
At 16,959 enrolled students, this
equals out to a little over $70 million.
As to where these funds are
dispersed, the records are not publicly
available. The allocated fees, however,
can be seen in bits and pieces. Student
government, for example, is given
a $215,000 annual budget, said
Arlington junior Marcus Maurer,
student government finance chair.
Maurer said the student government
allocation fund is a percentage of
the annual student fee budget, where
all the student fees are brought
together and distributed accordingly.
The allocation fund varies based on
student enrollment and the fee for that
academic year.
While students face continually
increasing tuition prices and fees,
Baylor might be directly affected by
Senate Bill 1092.
As previously reported by the
Lariat, Senate Bill 1092, proposed by
State Sen. Kel Sigler (R-Amarillo),
requires any university receiving more
than $5 million in Tuition Equalization
Grant money to comply with open
meeting and executive session laws,
regardless of private or public status.
Interim President David Garland
testified at a Texas Senate Higher
Education Committee meeting in
March, saying that 2,943 Baylor
students receive aid from the Tuition
Equalization Grant, 1,597 of which are
from minority populations and 962 are
first-generation college students, as
previously reported by the Lariat.

Religion professor
honored with
Collins Award
JUNPENG ZHANG
Reporter
Dr. Jonathan Tran was selected as the
winner among Baylor senior professors
of the 2016-17 academic year for the
Collins Outstanding Professor Award. As a
recipient, Tran gave a lecture titled “My Life
With Students: Wittgensteinian Thoughts
on Baylor Students” on Thursday in Kayser
Auditorium.
Tran teaches theology and ethics as an
associate professor of religion and serves as
faculty steward of the Honors Residential
Tran
College. His publications include “The
Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory:
Time and Eternity in the Far Country” and “Foucault and Theology,”
along with numerous articles about Christian theology and ethics,
linguistic philosophy and political theory.
The Collins Outstanding Professor Award is provided by the
Carr P. Collins Foundation to recognize and honor outstanding
teachers at Baylor, according to the Baylor website. Baylor’s current
senior class elects the award recipient each school year. The Collins
professor receives a cash award of $10,000, recognition in university
publications, citation on a plaque and recognition at the spring
commencement. The Collins professor also delivers a lecture that
will be published and made available to the university community.
Throughout his lecture, Tran talked about his unique
interpretation from the quotes he chose to present. One of the
quotes was about the relationship between language and world. He
said language gives numerous things to the world; however, there are
also problems between them. When the way the language works is
examined, the pressure of the limit of language is evident.
“The coming of limitation of language limits human beings’
creativity, specifically in two kinds of ways. One, that is the nature
of language to progress and advance. The changing of the language
like emerging a new language forces our lives to change,” Tran said.
“Another problem is that the disappointment we will have is that
when we realize we are bound to language, we can simply see it from
the first chapter of the Book of Genesis.”
James Bennigohf, vice provost for academic affairs and policy and
professor of music theory, said he appreciated the content of Tran’s
lecture and was inspired by Tran’s interpretation throughout.
“I thought it was very thought-provoking, and it gives us a lot
of things to think about in terms of how we value Baylor and can
actually be brought to life as each one of us continues to learn from
our faith and journey in our actual life,” Bennigohf said.

CAMPUS from Page 1
signing a Memorandum of Understanding to
formalize the ongoing working relationship
between the agencies as an improvement made
in the past two years.
Childers said the majority of the
improvements were strategically developed and
implemented by Baylor University Department
of Public Safety Command Staff after assessing
the then-2014 security posture on campus,
visiting Yale and Virginia Tech and reviewing
nationwide campus safety and security best

practices.
“This initial safety and security assessment,
along with the valuable Margolis and Healy
recommendations, resulted in the successful
development and implementation of a
comprehensive and efficient security platform
that exists today at Baylor University,” Childers
said.
Katy sophomore Abby Graeflin said even
though she has never felt unsafe on campus,
she is very thankful for improvements to make

it even safer.
“Since freshman year, I have appreciated
how the [Baylor University Police Department]
visit dorms, extra curricular and other Baylorsponsored organizations and events to show
their support in keeping our campus safe,”
Graeflin said.
Graeflin said she appreciated how detailed
the email was in explaining each improvement
and said it satisfied any questions she may
have had about campus safety and the police

department.
“I know that I can call the [Baylor University
Police Department] if I ever feel unsafe or in
harm’s way,” Graeflin said. “Knowing that
there are emergency polls on campus that work
24 hours everyday and cameras I believe that
[the Baylor University Police Department] is
doing a great job. I know that they always put
the safety of Baylor’s students first and that
means a whole lot to me.”

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Lecture speaks
on hook-up
culture and sex
THOMAS MOTT
Reporter

Joshua Kim | Cartoonist

Panel discusses the effects of
hypergender roles on society
JOY MOTON
Staff Writer
The Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
and Men for Change collaborated to host
the final THIS Matters panel discussion
Thursday in the Alexander Reading
Room.
THIS Matters is a series of
conversations connecting leaders with
diverse perspectives to offer context to
society’s most challenging questions. A
panel of four faculty members discussed
the origins, causes and effects of
hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity.
Dr. Mia Moody-Ramirez, associate
professor of journalism, public relations
and new media, spoke about the effects of
mass media on how society views gender.
First,
Moody-Ramirez
defined
femininity as the simple quality of being
female. She said hyperfemininity is a
more complicated sociological term that
describes the tendency for women to rely
on men, be passive and ultimately define
themselves by how they relate to men.
She added that hypermasculinity
depicts a culture where men are overly
sexual, more aggressive and less likely to
communicate. Moody-Ramirez used the
example of films such as “Terminator,”
“Scarface” and “Fast and the Furious”
that promote these views of both gender
roles.
Moody-Ramirez said there has been
an increase in western culture to defy
these cultural norms of gender.
“Men and women are refusing to be
defined by the trends of what it means to
be a man or a woman,” Moody-Ramirez
said.
Counter narratives include the Dove
campaign which promotes the idea that
women can be beautiful at any race, age
or size, Moody Ramirez said.
“An important takeaway is that social
media plays a prominent role in sharing
ideas about these two topics,” Moody-

Ramirez said.
Dr. Ed Rogers, psychologist and
practicum coordinator in the Baylor
Counseling Center, gave a clinical
perspective on hypermasculinity.
Rogers said one characteristic of
hypermasculinity is the ambition to be
an alpha male, or a man who dominates
everyone around him.
“Somehow you must be an alpha if
you’re going to be a successful man,”
Rogers said.
Rogers asked the audience to consider
the costs of that kind of mindset.
Rogers said alpha men attempt to
be dominant by putting everybody else
around them down. He said this level
of constant dominance and aggression
normally results in a society where men
destroy themselves by constantly tearing
each other down.
“This mindset is fundamentally a
defense mechanism against fear in our
lives of being inferior to people who will
come after you,” Rogers said.
Rogers said another characteristic
of hypermasculinity is controlling and
suppressing emotion.
“Whatever is associated with
femininity should be avoided, and
emotions are viewed as a feminine thing,”
Rogers said.
Rogers went on to describe the cost of
suppressing emotions.
“If you don’t know what’s hurting you,
eventually you’re going to do something
that harms you because you don’t know
what’s causing that pain,” Rogers said.
Rogers said emotions give people a
sense for the things that are wrong and
how to handle those things. He said
people who are intentionally numb to
their emotions will end up harboring
pain that they have no idea what to do
with.
“When people are desperately trying
to be alphas, and they’re not aware of
what’s going on internally, you have a
culture of people living behind a mask

where they’re not allowed to ask for help
and have to pretend to be Superman just
to be considered a man,” Rogers said.
Dr. Lenore Wright, associate
professor of interdisciplinary studies
and philosophy, talked about the self and
gender.
Wright said that when philosophers
think of the self, they think of what they
are and who they are. She said gender
causes people to think about this. She
went on to list categories that people use
to define who they are including race,
class, gender and religion.
“There are times of profound
suffering, profound challenge where we
transcend the categories and connect
with other humans,” Wright said.
Wright asked the audience to
consider when it is appropriate to strive
for transcendence and when is it not.
Wright shared stories about times where
people transcended their differences due
to suffering.
She shared about how her mother
worked with a man who was dying of
AIDS alone because he was shunned
by his family. He was angry that he was
dying and took it out on all of the hospital
staff except her mother.
She said one day the patient rested his
head against her mother’s abdomen and
shared a moment where human touch
caused them to value the commonality of
their humanity despite their difference in
gender and HIV status.
“In those moments of profound
suffering, we can and should transcend
the categories of identity that define who
we are,” Wright said.
Wright concluded by suggesting that
the categories people use to identify
themselves must be kept in a positive
context.
“When it damages who we are
or makes us less than our full selves,
we must resist or transcend. We can’t
alienate others because of the categories
we embrace,” Wright said.

Students attended Dr.
Jeremy Uecker’s lecture
about Society and Sex at the
Bill Daniel Student Center
Thursday evening to listen
to part of a four-part series
titled “Let’s Talk About It.”
Uecker, an assistant
professor of sociology at
Baylor, focused on describing
what is actually happening
among young adults in the
United States with respect
to hooking up and sexual
behavior in a more general
sense.
“I know that young adults
have inaccurate information
about their own peers’ sexual
behavior. College students
and young adults in general
tend to overestimate wildly
the proportion of their peers
who are sexually active,”
Uecker said.
Uecker
started
by
showing a misconception
around colleges that almost
everyone is no longer a
virgin. According to a study
done by National Survey of
Family Growth conducted
from 2011-13, nearly 31
percent of adults between
the ages of 18 and 23 are still
virgins.
Uecker also said that a
recent survey of 500 Baylor
students showed that only
17 percent of Baylor students
have had two or more
sexual partners in the last
year. This was less than the
same number of surveyed
students from the Texas
Tech University. Uecker also
said people who do not go
to college are more likely to
have sex than those who do
not.
“College students are
much less likely to have sex
than those who do not go
to college among this age
group. 29 percent of college
students are virgins,” Uecker
said.
Uecker was quick to
point out that even though
college students are less
likely to have sex than noncollege students, more than
70 percent of students have
participated in oral sex.
Uecker then switched his
focus to those who are in a
relationship. Only 4 percent
of people between the ages
of 18 and 23 who are in a
relationship are not having
sex.
Perhaps one of the greater
causes of sexual relations in
colleges are non-romantic
relationships. According to

Uecker, almost 25 percent of
sexual relationships are nonromantic or “friends with
benefits.” These relationships
usually tend to not last very
long, he explained. Uecker
said only 4 percent of nonromantic sexual relationships
will last more than one year.
Non-romantic
sexual
relationships, or “hooking
up,” is defined as a “casual
physical encounter between
two people,” Uecker said.
He added that 75 percent
of people say that they have
hooked up at least once by
the time they are a senior in
college.
The average number
of hookups per year by a
student by his or her senior
year is only one, according to
Uecker. It’s not as common
as one would think, Uecker
said, however, men tend to
be initiating these hookups
more than women. Women
tend to be more interested
in a romantic relationship
instead of just physical,
Uecker said.
“The hookup culture
… seems to be structured
around giving men the
pleasure. Men generally
have most of the power
in the hookup culture.
Women are more interested
in relationships than men
before and after they
hookup,” Uecker said.
Overall, students who
attended the lecture found
it very informative and
appreciated Baylor providing
a free lecture regarding the
topic of sexual behavior of
college students.
“It was really interesting
seeing the comparisons
between men and women
when it came to different
sexual activities,” Houston
freshman Sofie Hernandez
said.
San Antonio junior
Paige Hardy said this type
of lecture was something
all Baylor students should
attend.
“I think this series is
something that every Baylor
student should be learning.
I really hope that this type
of curriculum is something
that we can see in Chapel in
future years,” Hardy said.
The final lecture in
the series will feature Dr.
Ryan Richardson, Dr. Beth
Lanning and Dr. Christopher
Pieper. The talk is titled “Let’s
Talk About Us” and will take
place at 6 p.m. on April 27 in
room D110 Baylor Sciences
Building.

LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX Students sit in on lecture that
discussed the sexual behavior and hook-up culture of young
adults in the United States.

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Chief of Police Brad Wigtil
said he thinks this is due
to a mixture of reports the
department receives regarding
alcohol, criminal mischief
and bike theft around Penland
Residence Hall.
Tulsa, Okla., sophomore
Tyler Traino said he locked his
bike to a Penland Residence
Hall rack located at this “crime
hot spot” during spring break
and came back to find both
of his wheels missing. Traino
said he noticed the bike next
to his was missing wheels as
well. When a Baylor police
officer went to meet with
Traino over the incident, he
said the officer talked about a
decrease in recovering stolen
bike parts. Traino said that
the officer told him that while
bikes may be hard to find,
recovering stolen parts such as
tires is harder because they are
hard to locate and can be sold
on classified advertisement
websites such as Craigslist.
“The hard part with
wheels tracking is they’re not
serialized with a number, so
you can’t really get them back
as easily because it’s hard to
say that these were the exact
ones that were on that bike,”
Traino said.
Traino said he knew of
at least three other Penland
residents with either stolen
bikes or stolen wheels.
Wigtil said property crimes
like theft are a problem on
campus because they have
a “lower solvability” due to
reports often having “less
identifying information” that
could lead to arrests.
“It gets frustrating for us
because if a bicycle is not
registered, and it doesn’t
happen often, but a couple of
cases a year, we’ll catch the
person stealing the bike off
one of our bike racks or some
place else on campus,” Wigtil
said. “To file charges on that
person, we have to have a
complaint registered through
Parking and Transportation
Services.”
Wigtil said this makes the
bike recovery process harder
because the department needs
an owner to come forward to
associate with the theft and
have them decide whether to
press charges.
“But so many times nobody
comes forward,” Wigtil said.
Nashville,
Tenn.,
sophomore Anna Kate Rader
said she left her moped parked
in the intramural fields parking
lot for two nights over the
weekend, but said that when
she came to pick it up, it was
gone.
“I left it at the fields
because it felt safe. It’s in a
Baylor parking lot,” Rader
said. “The gates close at night
and are locked. So, I left it
there Friday around midnight,
and I came back for it on
Sunday, and it was missing,
and my first thought was that
it had been towed by Baylor
Parking Services.”
After speaking with Baylor
Parking and Transportation,
she filed an official report
with the police department.
Rader was assigned a case
investigator who told her that
while there are no cameras in
the parking lot, the department
would try to track it down
using other cameras around
campus.
Rader said she was
informed that the Baylor police
would put her information into
a national registry for stolen
vehicles. She said she has
since received a few updates,
but not anything “hopeful.”
Another trend confirmed
by Wigtil was the prominence
of alcohol-related reports.
These include instances of
public intoxication, minor in
consumption and minor in
possession.
“We’ll get reports from the
residence hall staff, and we’ll
go to investigate that situation
and respond to that situation
and typically we would write
a citation,” Wigtil said, “but
minor consuming is what we
deal with a lot.”
While
minor
in
consumption and minor in
possession reports are most
often students, Wigtil said that
cases of public intoxication
are a mixture of students and
non-students. Wigtil said this

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Graphic by Didi Martinez | Digital Managing Editor

“WE’LL SOLVE ANY CRIME BY DINNERTIME” The map pinpoints locations along the Waco area where crimes
were reported to the Baylor Police Department. The information gathered is according to the Campus Crime and
Fire Log. For an interactive crime map, visit baylorlariat.com.

is due to the department’s patrol
response area.
“So if you can think about where
Eighth and Ninth Street is where
Baylor’s buildings kind of stop,
we patrol between 35 and La Salle
Street all the way to 17th Street,”
Wigtil said. “So we run into public
intoxicated folks out there who

aren’t Baylor students because a lot
of people are out in that area.”
Baylor
University
Police
Department has primary jurisdiction
over all properties owned and
under the control of Baylor, but
its jurisdiction extends throughout
McLennan County, according to the
department’s website. Wigtil said

there is a separation between the
Baylor and Waco police departments,
but that they sometimes work
together on cases involving students
or within close proximity.
“Sometimes there will be
circumstances where they ask our
assistance on those cases, but we
never take them over,” Wigtil said.

“We all know that Waco is a great
city,” Deaver said. “We are fortunate
that Fixer Upper, success of Fixer
Upper and Chip and Joanna Gaines have
shined a national light on Waco over the
past few years. Now lots of people in the
nation are realizing how great Waco is
and are wanting to move here. In fact,
we are seeing that on a regular basis.”
Deaver also expressed his excitement
with the number of graduates from
Waco colleges that are choosing to stay
and work in Waco after their academic
career is finished.
Waco junior Hunter Solano said he
does not think downtown maintenance is
too bad yet but with all of the increased
tourism it is bound to get worse.
“If no one is in charge of maintaining
the sidewalks, and they get run-down, it
is going to give Waco a poor image to
visitors and distract them from the great
things our city has to offer,” Solano said.
Solano said he thinks the city should
accept the proposal and take the burden
of maintenance off of the business
owners.
“This tourism is great for the city,
and we need to be doing everything we
can to encourage it not discourage it,”
Solano said.
If the city of Waco rejects the
proposal, Solano said he thinks starting
a volunteer organization similar to
“Adopt-a-Highway” could help the city
maintain its image.

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HEARTBREAK IN THE THEATER “The Last Five Years” tells the tale of two lovers’ failed relationship from each of their points of view. The show plays at
7:30 p.m. April 21-23 at Jubilee Theatre. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at http://www.jubileetheatre-waco.org/

‘The Last Five Years’
Drama to show the importance of nurturing relationships
KASSIDY WOYTEK
Reporter
The Jubilee Theatre aims to
define its voice in the Waco theater
community this weekend with a
production of “The Last Five Years”
beginning at 7:30 tonight. The
musical by Jason Robert Brown
explores the failed relationship
between Cathy, a struggling actress,
and Jamie, a recently successful
author.
Both characters share their
side of the story with the audience,
but with a twist. Jaime recounts
the relationship from beginning
to end, while Cathy begins with
the couple’s divorce and works her
way backward. The two characters
interact only once onstage, singing
a duet when their timelines meet in
the middle.
Cameron Dinkens, who plays
Jamie, said he thinks most audience
members will cast blame on one
character or the other as the plot
develops.
“The challenge has been to
find a way to portray Jamie so that
the audience doesn’t completely
antagonize him,” Dinkens said. “I’m
trying to show his vulnerability and
his motivation for why he does what
he does.”

Dinkens said there’s a lesson to
be learned from Cathy and Jamie’s
story. When people allow life to
get in the way of nurturing their
relationships, they tend to suffer.
Although he had to commute
two and a half hours for each
rehearsal, Dinkens said the
commute was worth it to perform in
a show written by one of his favorite
composers.
“It is absolutely breathtaking
and wonderful to listen to,” Dinkens
said. “[Jason Robert Brown] is so
skilled at capturing human emotion
and what the mind is going through
at a given moment.”
Lauren Weber, a lecturer in
Baylor’s department of theater arts,
plays the role of Cathy. She said the
show captures the kind of heartbreak
that everyone goes through.
For this show, the Jubilee Theatre
partnered with Therapy CenterStage,
an organization that uses the fine
arts to talk about mental health
issues. Weber said that a counselor
from Therapy CenterStage helped
her better understand Cathy’s
emotional state.
“‘The Last Five Years’ is a really
beautiful story about humanity,”
Weber said.
Before starring in this show,
Weber composed and directed

several children’s plays as a part of
the theater’s community service. She
said the Jubilee holds a special place
in her heart.
The theater itself used to screen
adult films before the nonprofit
organization Mission Waco acquired
it in 1994. Mission Waco now leads
children’s theater programs in the
renovated space and uses theater as
a way to discuss social issues.
Waco first year graduate student
Trent Sutton, who is pursuing a
dual degree in divinity and social
work, has been the Jubilee Theatre
director since November. He
began volunteering at the Jubilee
as a sophomore teaching children’s

theater classes.
Sutton said theater is an
extremely useful tool for ministry,
although most people never see it as
anything but entertainment.
Sutton said he intentionally cast
Jamie and Cathy as an interracial
couple because the Jubilee puts
an emphasis on the importance of
diversity. Sutton said every theater
in Waco has its own voice, and
diversity it an important part of the
Jubilee’s.
“We want to be known for a
certain intentionality in regards to
diversity and issues that need to be
discussed,” Sutton said.
Sutton felt that “The Last Five
Years” was an ideal spring show
because a cast of only two characters
was easy to manage. This gave
Sutton the freedom to focus on
developing future projects like
revamping the theater’s technology
and expanding the reach of their
children’s programs.
The Jubilee Theatre will put on
its first full season of shows in the
fall, which Sutton said will include
at least five productions.
“We’re trying to carve out a
space for ourselves within the Waco
community,” Sutton said. “The
Jubilee Theatre, for me, is a really
unique place.”

Baseball gets ready for rival TCU
BEN EVERETT
Sports Writer
Baylor baseball heads to Fort
Worth to face the top team in the Big
12, TCU, in a weekend series.
The Bears (23-14, 5-7) are seventh
in the Big 12 standings but can make
up ground with a series win over the
Horned Frogs (28-7, 9-3).
The Bears have won three of their
last four including a series win over
Texas and a thrilling comeback win
over Stephen F. Austin on Tuesday.
Baylor
head
coach
Steve
Rodriguez says the team can sense
some momentum following recent
success.
“You see it, and you can feel it,”
Rodriguez said. “You see our guys
having more confidence. I just want
them to understand they have what it
takes to win.”
Rodriguez says freshman third
baseman Davis Wendzel, the hero in
the midweek win over SFA, should
continue to improve behind the plate.
“He was one of our best hitters
coming in to the season,” Rodriguez
said. “He plays really well when
he’s relaxed. He has the ability to
be something special for us in the
future.”
Wendzel is sixth on the team in
batting average at .272 and has 14
runs batted in and 2 homeruns in just
81 at-bats.
“We need all the momentum
we can get going into this series,”
Wendzel said, “but if we play well,
we’ll do fine. Obviously TCU is a
great team; we just have to be ready.”

Dayday Wynn | Lariat Photographer

GOING FOR THE OUTSTRETCHED VICTORY Junior right handed pitcher Joe Heinemann throws a pitch in a midweek game against Stephen F. Austin on April 18 in Waco. Baylor won the game 2-1 thanks to back-to-back homeruns
from Kameron Esthay and David Wendzel in the bottom of the ninth inning. Baylor aims to win its second Big 12 series
of the season against TCU this weekend.

On the defensive side, the Bears
will look to lean on the strong
bullpen of junior Troy Montemayor,

sophomore Kyle Hill and senior Drew
Robertson, who all have earned run
averages below 2.

Bradford has a combined record of
10-7 but will face a strong hitting
team in TCU.
Rodriguez says that the Horned
Frogs don’t have any glaring
weaknesses, so Baylor will have to
play error-free.
“They can really run — they have
a ton of stolen bases,” Rodriguez
said. “Their starting pitching is
phenomenal as well as their bullpen.
And they can hit. They are a very
well-balanced team.”
The TCU trio of Austen Wade,
Nolan Brown and Luken Baker all
have batting averages over .300. Baker
leads the team with 31 RBIs and seven
HRs.
The Horned Frogs’ pitching staff is
led by starter Jared Janczak who owns
a 2.25 ERA and a perfect 6-0 record
in nine starts.
Parsons says the rivalry with TCU
makes playing in those games more
fun because more people attend.
“It’s well — known,” Parsons said.
“It’s a lot of fun to be a part of, and I’m
glad to be a part of it. Usually the fans
sell out, and it gets crazy. It makes it
more fun.”
Baylor leads the all-time series
142-121, but TCU holds the edge 5950 in Fort Worth and has won two in
a row against the Bears.
The Bears and Horned Frogs play
at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 3:00 p.m. on
Saturday and 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Following the weekend series, the
Bears return to Waco to take on Texas
State at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at Baylor
Ballpark.

Softball prepares for Big 12 series in Norman
NATHAN KEIL
Sports Writer
The race for softball
supremacy is about to get
a bit clearer this weekend.
No. 13 Baylor (8-1 in Big 12
play) will travel to Norman,
Okla., to battle defending
Women’s
College
World
Series champion and No. 8
Oklahoma (9-0 in the Big 12.)
The Lady Bears have won
six consecutive series against
conference opponents dating
back to last season. Their last
loss was a sweep at the bats
of the Sooners at Getterman
Stadium.
Freshman infielder Shelby
McGlaun knows how big the
series is with the Sooners as
both teams make their moves
closer to a Big 12 title.
“We’re really excited for
the competition, and we’ve
prepared all week for that,”
McGlaun said. “We know
it’s going to be a big series,
especially Big 12 standings
wise. Excited to see how we
stack up against them.”
Both teams will enter the

season red hot as the Sooners
have won 16 consecutive
games dating back to a 3-1
loss to Cal Poly on March 18.
However, due to a rained out
doubleheader on Tuesday
against Houston, Baylor has
not played since a 1-0 loss to
Texas State on April 12.
With the nine-day layoff,
Baylor has had some time to
rest up and get healthy heading
into the series. The Lady Bears
have not let the time go to
waste as many of them have
gone into the practice facility
to continue to work and
improve as a team, something
that head coach Glenn Moore
admires about this group.
“I saw several of the girls
leaving the field yesterday, one
at 8 in the morning from the
batting cages,” Moore said. “It
lets you know that you have a
team that is very focused and
ready to compete. That’s all
you can ask of them.”
Both teams have good
offenses as the Lady Bears hit
.337 as a team and the Sooners
.324. The Sooners are led by
freshman utility player Nicole

Mendes’ .409 batting average
and followed closely by
sophomore infielder Caleigh
Cliffton at .397. The Sooners
have home run capability,
hitting 34 on the year, led
by junior outfielder Nicole
Pendley’s team-leading 10 and
sophomore infielder Sydney
Romero’s seven.
The Lady Bears are led
by senior infielder Lindsey
Cargill, who leads the Big 12
in hitting at .480 and is riding
a program record 20-game
hitting streak. Sophomore
outfielder Kyla Walker is
right behind her at .400 and
McGlaun and junior infielder
Shelby Friudenberg provide
the power with eight and six
home runs respectively.
As good as the offenses
have been for both teams, the
strength and the determining
factor will presumably be the
pitching.
For Baylor, it will be senior
Kelsee Selman leading the
way with an 18-4 record and
a 1.31 earned run average.
Sophomore
pitcher
Gia
Rodoni has also been great for

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Baylor this season, posting an
11-1 record and a 1.81 ERA,
while McGlaun is 6-2 with a
1.92 ERA.

“I think the
pressure is
on Oklahoma.
They’re the
defending
national
champions.”
Glenn Moore |
Baylor Softball
head coach

Selman credits her success
on the mound to the work of
her teammates behind her in

the field.
“I have a lot of confidence
because of how well the team
is doing and how well they’ve
played behind me and behind
Gia [Rodoni],” Selman said.
“They’ve hit the ball really
well. Practice has been great.
On our off days, people are out
here working. Just knowing
how much they’re working
gives me more confidence.”
Moore is confident that
if Selman continues to work
as she has done all year, she’ll
continue to give the team a
chance to win.
“Kelsee
[Selman]
is
throwing as well anyone
that we can put up against
Oklahoma, and that’s saying
a lot because we’ve had some
good arms here,” Moore said.
“If she continues to do her job
here, we’ll have a chance to
win.”
Oklahoma, unlike years
past, has three solid arms that
will see time in the circle this
weekend. Junior Paige Parker
is 15-5 with a 1.76 ERA and
159 strikeouts to just 20 walks.
Junior Paige Lowary and

freshman Mariah Lopez have
been equally as good, posting
10-1 and 13-1 records in the
circle.
Facing good pitching is
nothing new for Baylor as it
saw top 20 pitching in Tucson,
Ariz., to start the year and
over spring break in Fullerton,
Calif.
As these two power schools
collide this weekend, Moore
likes his team’s chances.
“I think the pressure is
on Oklahoma. They’re the
defending national champions,
and their expectations are
higher,” Moore said. “They’re
ranked higher than us, their
RPI is a little higher — in the
public’s eye, they’re supposed
to be the better team, and we’re
playing at their park. We don’t
need to make this bigger than
it is, we just need to play ball
the way we’ve been playing.”
Game one of the series
begins at 6:30 p.m. tonight
and will be aired on Fox Sports
Southwest. Game two will be 2
p.m. Saturday and game three
at noon Sunday. Games two
and three will air on ESPN2.